Sadie Bay Adair

Sadie Bay Adair
Sadie Bay Adair, from a 1922 publication
Born
Sadie Bay

August 11, 1868
Hays City, Kansas, U.S.
DiedJanuary 16, 1944 (age 75)
OccupationPhysician
Known forPresident, American Medical Women's Association

Sadie Bay Adair (August 11, 1868[1] – January 16, 1944) was an American physician based in Chicago. She was president of the American Medical Women's Association's predecessor organization, the Medical Women's Club of Chicago, and editor of the association's journal. She was also a member of the Chicago Board of Education from 1917 to 1922.

Early life and education

Adair was born in Hays, Kansas,[2] and raised in Buena Vista, Colorado,[3] the daughter of John M. Bay and Wilmet Hall Bay.[4] She graduated from Creighton Medical College in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1902.[5]

Career

Adair was on the staff of the Chicago Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium in 1919. She was elected president of the American Medical Women's Association's predecessor, the Women's Medical Club of Chicago,[6][7] and was editor of the association's journal for 25 years.[8] In 1914 she served on the first all-women medical jury, giving verdicts on 22 cases at the Chicago Psychopathic Hospital.[9] In 1919 she was elected to membership in the American Public Health Association.[10] She was an officer of the Chicago Medical Society,[11] and served on the board of governors of the Woman's Century Club.[12][13]

Adair was appointed to the Chicago Board of Education in 1917.[14] She took special interest in the construction of a girls' technical high school,[15] and helped to establish an open-air kindergarten in the city.[16] She promoted sports for girls, especially rugby: "There is no earthly reason why any normal girl cannot compete in any games that her brother does," she commented in 1922. "The claim that men's sports are too strenuous for women is absurd."[17] She also spoke approvingly of shorter skirts, looser clothing, and lighter clothing, as healthful and "sensible" for active young women.[17]

In 1922, Adair resigned from the Board of Education,[18] and was fined $750 for contempt of court,[19] in a power struggle involving the Board, the schools superintendent, and the mayor.[20][21] In 1923, she was briefly a member of the Davis school board.[22][23]

Personal life

Sadie Bay and Arthur Byers Adair married in 1892, in Colorado.[2] They had a son, Loren, and they divorced before June 1908. She was struck and injured by a moving van in 1943,[24] and she died in 1944, at the age of 75, in Chicago.[8][25]

References

  1. ^ Some sources give her birth year as 1873; 1868 is the year on her gravestone.
  2. ^ a b Chicago Medical Society (1922). History of medicine and surgery and physicians and surgeons of Chicago. The Biographical publishing corporation. p. 376. Archived from the original on 2025-05-14. Retrieved 2025-10-01.
  3. ^ "Dr. Sadie Bay Adair to Speak". The Chicago Whip. 1922-02-04. p. 5. Retrieved 2025-10-01 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ "Mrs. Wilmet Hall Bay". Chicago Tribune. 1919-07-07. p. 19. Retrieved 2025-10-01 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ "Dr. Sadie Bay Adair". The New York Times. January 18, 1944. p. 19. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2025-10-01.
  6. ^ "Women's Medical Club". The Chicago Medical Recorder: 373. June 1914.
  7. ^ "Insurgent Ticket Wins at Women's Medical Club". Chicago Tribune. 1914-06-04. p. 13. Retrieved 2025-10-01 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ a b "Obituary: Dr. Sadie Adair". The Oakland Kenwood Outlook. 1944-02-03. p. 2. Retrieved 2025-10-01 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ "First Jury of Medical Women in the World's History". The Chicago Medical Recorder: 637–638. November 1914.
  10. ^ "List of New Members" American Journal of Public Health 9(12)(December 1919): 989.
  11. ^ "Cook County". Illinois Medical Journal. 26 (1): 58. July 1914.
  12. ^ Webber, Kate (1928-04-29). "Temporary Rooms Engaged Pending Building of Home". Chicago Tribune. p. 103. Retrieved 2025-10-01 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. ^ Naugle, Roberta (1929-03-10). "New Women's Club Planned for Downtown; Will Build Own Home in Near Future". Chicago Tribune. p. 111. Retrieved 2025-10-01 – via Newspapers.com.
  14. ^ Annual Report of the Comptroller of the City of Chicago, Illinois. Comptroller's Office, Department of Finance. 1917.
  15. ^ "Mayor's Coup is Imperiled by Board Backfire". Chicago Tribune. 1922-06-10. p. 3. Retrieved 2025-10-01 – via Newspapers.com.
  16. ^ Appel, Emma McKay (1919). "Instruction and Care of the Undernourished Child". Chicago Schools Journal. 2: 12.
  17. ^ a b "Football for Girls; Dr. Sadie Adair, School Expert, Declares It's a Safe Game for Women". Press of Atlantic City. 1922-10-14. p. 1. Retrieved 2025-10-01 – via Newspapers.com.
  18. ^ "Dr. Adair Loses Suit to Regain Old School Job; Court Rules Against Former Trustee". Chicago Tribune. 1923-09-08. p. 12. Retrieved 2025-10-01 – via Newspapers.com.
  19. ^ "Dr. Sadie Adair Fails to Appear; Scanlan's Ire Up". Chicago Tribune. 1920-07-20. p. 17. Retrieved 2025-10-01 – via Newspapers.com.
  20. ^ "School Chiefs Seek an Appeal to Escape Jail". Chicago Tribune. 1922-01-24. p. 5. Retrieved 2025-10-01 – via Newspapers.ccom.
  21. ^ "Court Overrides Gov. Small". Herald and Review. 1922-10-24. p. 1. Retrieved 2025-10-01 – via Newspapers.com.
  22. ^ "Cling to Fancy Cars". Chicago Tribune. 1923-02-10. p. 7. Retrieved 2025-10-01 – via Newspapers.com.
  23. ^ Kinsley, Philip (1923-07-04). "Defense to Rest in Lundin Trial by Friday Night". Chicago Tribune. p. 10. Retrieved 2025-10-01 – via Newspapers.com.
  24. ^ "Dr. Sadie Adair Injured; Struck by Moving Van". Chicago Tribune. 1943-04-01. p. 20. Retrieved 2025-10-01 – via Newspapers.com.
  25. ^ "Dr. Sadie Adair Funeral to be Held Tomorrow". Chicago Tribune. 1944-01-18. p. 16. Retrieved 2025-10-01 – via Newspapers.com.
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